Collection context
Summary
- Creator:
- Civil Rights Heritage Center
- Extent:
- 7.5 cubic feet (Six full-size records cases.)
- Language:
- English .
- Preferred citation:
[Item], Oral History collection, Civil Rights Heritage Center Collections, Indiana University South Bend Archives.
Background
- Biographical / Historical:
Dr. Lester C. Lamon formed the IU South Bend Civil Rights Heritage Center in 2001 with the intent to better research and document the history of the African American community and civil rights movement in and around South Bend, Indiana. Among their first and most fruitful efforts was the establishment of the Oral History program. Students and Civil Rights Heritage Center staff and volunteers, all under the guidance of IU South Bend professors, began recording and transcribing the stories of many people who lived through and worked for the civil rights movement – Helen Pope, Dr. Bernard Streets, Barbara Brandy, John Charles Bryant, Willie Mae Butts, Dr. Roland Chamblee, and dozens more. Interviews were conducted wherever students and subjects could get together and talk – at the subjects' homes, in restaurants, on the IU South Bend campus, etc. Although the bulk of the interviews were conducted during the first few years, the program still continues today.
- Scope and Content:
This collection contains recordings of oral history interviews conducted as part of the Oral History program at the Civil Rights Heritage Center (CRHC). The project of recording and preserving oral histories began with the founding of the CRHC in 2001 and continues to this day. Interviews have been conducted with South Bend area residents who have lived through and played a role in civil rights movements, with interviews focusing on the experiences of the African American, Latinx, and LGBTQ communities.
- Arrangement:
The collection is organized alphabetically by the last name of each individual. Each folder contains materials collected for each individual – recordings (original and subsequent copies, or born digital), release forms, printed transcripts, and occasionally floppy discs containing a digital version of the transcript. In some cases, individuals were interviewed on more than one occasion. In those cases, separate folders were created for each interview.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Access
- RESTRICTIONS:
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This collection is open for research. Advance notice is required.
- TERMS OF ACCESS:
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In some cases, legal release forms were not included with or not obtained for the interview. Additionally, there are sometimes discrepancies between the original interview and the information contained on the release form (e.g. dates not included, different dates signed on the forms, etc.). For questions about the legal status of a particular interview, please contact the IU South Bend Archivist.
The IU South Bend Archives respects the intellectual property rights of others and does not claim copyright for non-university records, materials in the public domain, or materials for which we do not hold a Deed of Gift. Responsibility for the determination of the copyright status of these materials rests with those persons wishing to reuse the materials. Researchers are responsible for securing permission from copyright owners and any other rights holders for any reuse of these materials that extends beyond fair use or other statutory limitations.
Digital reproductions of archival materials from the IU South Bend Archives are made available for noncommercial educational and research purposes only. If you are the copyright holder for any of the digitized material and have questions about its inclusion on our site, please contact the Indiana University South Bend Archivist.
- PREFERRED CITATION:
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[Item], Oral History collection, Civil Rights Heritage Center Collections, Indiana University South Bend Archives.
- CAMPUS:
- Indiana University South Bend
- LOCATION OF THIS COLLECTION:
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Schurz Library1700 Mishawaka AvenuePO Box 7111South Bend, Indiana 46634, United States
- CAMPUS:
- Indiana University South Bend
- CONTACT:
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574-520-4392archiusb@iusb.edu